Comments on: Crazy Heart

By: I Rate Films » Blog Archive Passion Play

I Rate Films » Blog Archive Passion Play — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:20:48 +0000

[...] absurdly pretentious, and it’s about a thousand times crappier than he remembers that movie being [Read Swift's take on Crazy Heart, here]. It’s basically a love story between two lost outcasts who find each other. This most certainly [...]

By: Sammy Moseby

Sammy Moseby — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:12:04 +0000

thanks !! very helpful post!

By: RickSwift

RickSwift — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:18:16 +0000

I attacked it so much without spoiling stuff, but in my comments, I let the spoilers fly. Yea, I thought at the end it would have been MUCH better if he had died, when Farrel is all choked up, "my mentor and friend wrote this song, I hope you like it" I was thinking, oh, ok, he died, maybe this movie doesn't suck – but then they showed him talking to the incredibly horribly cast MG. I think Susan Sarandon is more his speed, not the young and spirited Gyllenhaal. Right off the bat I was thinking, this is crap, why is she falling for him so quickly? His "charm" – then all the potential for real drama was snuffed out, her kid is found, he doesn't die, his AA meeting was all of two minutes long then flash forward 16 months later and he is hunky dory. Also, they NEVER explained WHY he didn't like Farrell, which irked me to no end. The movie was a bad cliche, only Ishtar could make me more irked . . .

By: Vancetastic

Vancetastic — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:23:11 +0000

Maggie Gyllenhaal was also terribly cast. And I love how Bad Blake is supposed to hate the singer played by Colin Farrell, and then when we meet Farrell's character, he's really nice, and there's absolutely no payoff for Blake's feelings toward him. The major conflict in the film is when he loses Gyellenhaal's boy, during an episode in which he is not in the least bit to blame. Nevertheless, this is supposed to serve as some kind of condemnation of the character. Right on — this is not a good movie.

By: @suziplasse

@suziplasse — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:27:53 +0000

Great, refreshing review! So nice to read something from someone who tells it like it is. I haven't seen Crazy Heart…and now I won't, unless it is, as Rick suggests, to parley into a drinking game.

As always, what makes a movie is the screenplay…and, as always, Hollywood holds any writing talent on the outside of their hallowed walls, never letting in new, fresh, TALENT.

Not to mention that I laughed more than 3 times, giving this review a 5 stars on the Q-meter.

Keep up the good work, daddy-o…even your non-detractors need ya.